The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-17
'LLO xiii AND Dk.A'9LYII
WHAT MANNER OF NAN THE
HOLY FATHER Is.
His Idea Of All SOciaIIsn-HIs Daily
Life snd Political
Traits.
IsrucrAL 10 PIE ArrsAL.i

NEW YoRK, July 18.-Almost on the
fsme day that DR.. McGlynn was ex-
communicated by order Of the Su-
preme Pontif Leo XIII, there was
running through the press In New
York, In London. In Pane, In Cologne,
In Turin, In Barcslons, and ct the
Hague the frst authorised "Liie" of
the Pope, which was written largely
from q manuscript In the Vatican
which he lent 10 the author, DR.. Der.
nard O'Reilly, an American priest. It
IL, therefore, largely autobiographic;
and, having received the Pope's spe.
clal blessing and sanction, It may be
taken % the narrative Of his career
BY which he himself desires posterity
TO judge him. The author has also
the especial congratulations Of Arch
bishop Gibbons and Archbishop Cor.
rigsn. II will be recalled that
DIR. M'aRYSN's ATTITUDE
Ia not the attitude Of Q Protestant TO
the Pope, but OF q believer In the Ro-
man church, It's doctrines and It's sys-
tenn OF government, still Of Q rebel
against the particular abuse Of the
papal and hieiarchal powers. In
other words DR.. McGlynn maintains
that he has not sinned against the
real Roman Church-not against the
Catholic rsligion-but only against
this particular Pope and his hierarchy.
The very eesenc, Of the McGlynn
case, therefore, lies in the especial ex.
perience, career, doctrines and pecu-
liarities Of Lso XIII. And the nara
tive Of the Pope's life, which he him.
self has authorized and 10 q great de.
gree himseli written, leaves no room
for wonder that the course pursued by
DR.. McGlynn has been attended With
the consequence that the whole polit-
ical and religious world Is now dis
cussins. The greater part Of Joachim
Pecci's life (for that IL the Pops's
nsme) has been . fight fn the
TEMPORAL PowER a. rHs CHURCH
and Tor the maintenance OF all doc.
trines upon which Ito temporal a we'll
as Ito spiritual po yer must rect. The
great work OF the earlier part Of
Joachim Pecci's life was his work AZ
Bishop OF PeruGs. A scholarly and
deyout man from his youth MP, Of q
comparatively early period (he . nov
seveniy-seven years OF aee) he dis
played along with the humility OF the
true priest and the sell sacrifice of 4
devout man, the pugnscious qualities
OF the church militant and diplomatic
qualities OF the very rarest order. II |
he had not been . priest he might |
easily have become one OF the fore
mpst secular diplom atists OF his time.
He was cardinal In 1880, after bis long |
service - bishopric ri PeruRis, when
he wrote an almost fierce erplanstion
OF the "Roman Quesiion.n maintain. |
Ing the necessity OF . temporal do
minion OF the Pope. This was before
Garibaldi's expedition 10 Sicily and
the Piedmontese invasion OF Umbria.
IT 10 ase," he said, shat spy
Catholic holds tbs TEN poral dominion
TO be Q dogma OF his faith. Bot II is
most true, and must DO evident 10
every intelligent mind, that th,re IA a
very olose connection between this
temporal power and the spiritual
primscy. This church IS the King
dom Of Christ" he sxclsimsd. "Can
the head OF this Kined I'm, withou, nm.
reason, become the subj oct Of a mere
earthly potentate 7" Aud 81, all
through the revolutions that followed
and the temporal losses that befall
the church, he was her vigorous
champion Is
An IsDHrESpESr KInrxscx
In this world a. well a, . guide 10 the
world beyond. And when the hoal
invasion by Garib,l came his double
conduct As humble prizes, and as dsr.
ing dipomatist equally command ad.
miration. Alresdy he had lived In
Belgium a. Pspsl Nuncio. He rad
travelled In France. He bad been Ia
England, and he Ia the first Pope since
The time Of Henry VIII that ever 90,
loot on English soil. Already he knew
the temper Of all the leading nations
and the humors and purposes q every
European court. For this man 10
s)Rs DIPLOMATIC
and student Of politics. With this
temper aud experiences, II 10 no won.
der that he became an ind .Ilble ruler
both In temporal and spiritual things,
and he ID not the Kind Of man-taks q
purely personal view OF him-to be
'hsken by appeals or threats; not the
Kind Of man 10 yield or shrink when
The trying momsnt OF Q tsty or Of q
policy comes. But more directly Der.
.inent 70 the hcGlynu case "a his
Iamous 1900 .a......